Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

A hands-on walkthrough of fine-tuning Mistral-7B on personal blog posts using LoRA on an NVIDIA DGX Spark — from training data to local deployment, in one evening.

I built an open-source EPUB reader in one night using Claude Code — drag, drop, read, and analyze your book before it goes live.

Low-code platforms promised to democratize software development. AI-augmented engineering just made that promise obsolete — and cheaper.

LangExtract brings schema enforcement, source grounding, and multi-pass extraction to any LLM. Here's how to build a real PDF intelligence pipeline.

Frameworks hide the loop. This tutorial builds a working Python AI agent in 50 lines, then adds a tool registry, memory, and multi-agent patterns.

Last month I was looking at my analytics for AutoDetective.ai and noticed something I wasn't expecting. A non-trivial chunk of referral traffic was coming...

Most developers build one product at a time and market it in isolation. I know because I did this for years and it's an incredibly inefficient way to...

I spent eighteen years building systems for companies with names you'd recognize. Fortune 500 companies with six-figure infrastructure budgets, compliance...

My neighbor Carl sells firewood.

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

I lost power for three days last January.

Last month I shipped three digital products on Gumroad in a single weekend. Not garbage products — actual useful things that people are buying. A prompt...

Last February, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, my battery bank voltage dropped to 11.2V at 3 AM. The inverter alarm woke me up. It was -28°F outside...

AI Overviews crushed my reference content. Experience-based articles held. I rebuilt my SEO strategy around what LLMs can't replicate.

I've spent more on AI tools than groceries in the last 18 months. In Alaska, that's a lot of milk. Here's what actually earned its keep — and what was a waste.

I almost killed myself with a roof beam.

I published a technical book about training large language models. Not a pamphlet — a real book with working code examples, architecture diagrams, and...

Let me start with the take that will probably annoy people: GitHub Copilot is going to dominate enterprise development by mid-2026, and if you're building...

At 6 AM on a Saturday, I made the kind of decision that only sounds reasonable when you're on your second pot of coffee and the temperature outside is...

My cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska runs on solar panels and a battery bank. During the winter, when we get about five hours of usable daylight and...